康文理学院

苏珊娜Gottschang) is a medical anthropologist whose work contextualizes how individuals navigate governance and knowledge systems at the intersections of health, 科学, 和医学. Her research and writing are rooted in China and the US and cross anthropology, 东亚研究, 性别研究, 公共卫生, 以及科学技术研究. Her current research focuses on the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases in horses and how horses, 他们的照顾者, and veterinarians deal with the uncertainties of treatment and care by drawing on experiential and anecdotal knowledge and practices as well as those of evidence-based veterinary medicine.

她的书, 一家中国医院的产妇配方, is the first ethnography about how a Chinese hospital’s staff, 新妈妈, and their families navigated the UNICEF-WHO Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative’s policies and practices to promote breastfeeding at a time of unprecedented social and economic change. Relations between biomedical practices and heightened expectations of femininity and sexuality demanded by consumer culture, alongside international and national agendas to promote maternal and child health, revealed new agents of maternal governance emerging at the very moment China’s economy heats up. The ethnography provides insight into how women’s creative pragmatism in a rapidly changing society leads to their views and decisions about motherhood. Gottschang曾在 Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Technology and Culture 《皇家医学会杂志. 

She is committed to collaborative projects in her research, writing, and teaching – ranging from a three-year collaborative research project on everyday technologies in East Asia at Hong Kong University to coaching a student team in 澳门葡京博彩软件工程设计诊所.